Great day! Pete - thanks for leading, I hope your jeep dries out. Sorry I didn't meet you guys for dinner, my ABS was acting up and Jeff's brake light came on. I pulled the fuse for the ABS and made it home, probably just dirt in the ring.

 

Great time and thanks to Pete for leading our group ! sorry me missed dinner too...had to run. Let's see the pics !!!

 

Had a great day..

First off who ever had the idea of a black friday run is the smartest man in a JK..let the boys get out while the wives go and get pepper sprayed at the sales....unless you need new tools and sears is rocking 50% tool deals at 4am!

So day started at 3am, showering and driving to sears...got in line with the rest of the materialistic Americans at 345 AM! Grabbed a few tools from the shelfs and got out of that mad house...20mins in and out! and wasn't stabbed or peppered...wheew good morning so far..

Drove up to RC..i was "that guy" who shows up first...but then another jeepr showed up (lost the name in the whole mix of things) but we re-spooled my winch and stood by as others showed up. As drivers showed up, they would hop out..say hi and then start working on rig..most where just taking off Sway bar links, and air'in down, I helped one jeeper take off his Sarah steps( with the disclaimer of "if something will get bashed, is it ok that its the body and not your step (that can be replaced?)) off it went, I was having issues with my JKS SS relocation bracket (as it doesn't mate up with bilstine SS, but i have new bushing on the way from summit to fix that) so i took off my SS for a day of wheeling with out it....

More and more started popping up..by the end i counted 26 rigs (but then i suck at math) around 915ish we got the call to gather up front...we got in to our grps, beg. 101's Greens, blues/blacks, and Who wants to fallow Pirate Kitty to your death, grps. I saw PK's rig and decided to hop in to the blues/blacks...and i am still working on hunting down an oil pan skid (lets go EVO get hot!) but i think i can take her little stock jeep next outing...game on!

we took off for a day of fun in the sun...really nice day..warm around 50ish with sun out whole time, mud was not to bad after the weekish of rain before, had nice water holes and made a few area's "fun" that would normally be a boring section. Our grp ran around on blues with some black jaunts, i think we had 3 of the 5 make pizza rock(does winching count, sorry had to put that in there) and 3 make yellow jacket...

SO over all a great day to meet fellow JK'ers and get out in the sun..

Huge thanks for all the Grp Leaders! some i know took lower trails then they normally due for the good of the grp. so thanks again for helping out..and we saw the 101 grp once and it looked like their Grp leader was on point, out of the truck spotting and teaching the newer guys on the trail they where on! Great work!

 

sorry poser pic!

Sorry had to.....

 

Glad everyone had fun. I got to run those blue/black trails that seem to scare the 101 groups I lead sometimes.

As for carnage, I ended being lead from the crest at 501 to my driveway by Dcharge74. As we were heading up that hill, I had a sputter and the Jeep started to run funny. We pulled over at the top of the hill, and the engine was shaking like a nervous Chihuahua. We took off, and I had NO acceleration. We coasted to the bottom of the hill, and after a second stop not much further down the road, Dcharge hooked up to my front bumper. That was a nerve racking drive home being 15' from his back end the whole time. He pulled us up the hills, and I braked us down the hills. Evidently had some interesting looks from a couple of Staties (I didn't see as my eyes were glued to the strap).

Now I have a bunch of Throttle control codes on the Jeep that I have to figure out.

This is why I am proud of the people I wheel with: people like Mike.

 

Thanks Bnizzle for the assistance in removing the steps! I made out okay and managed to leave the park with no issues...banged a couple of my stock skids is about it ( I have one little video of us going thru the Fire Pit and coming up the other side I hit a stump and you clearly hear me let out an Ooo, shit! LOL)
Had an awesome time and my son had a blast once we got out on the trails. For a 12 year old boy that would rather be playing video games on a day off from school he managed to still enjoy himself on some of the mini hills and rocks we climbed.

 

Washing and waxing!
I thought RC's price was a bit high until I realized how much of the park they'd be sending home with me! ; )

 

Had a great day on the trail, didn't really get pics, did get some video

poser shot



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1Ztjuwa0c&feature=feedu

 

Another awesome Black Friday run. Again I had the pleasure of guiding a great group of Jeepers.
I wasn't able to get many pics but here are a few.
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...%20Run%202011/

 

Thanks again for the great spotting!! I learned a lot, and can't wait for the next time!!